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REGULATIONS RELATING TO 
TEACHERS CERTIFICATES 

September 1906 



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Elementary certificate 3 

Academic *.* 6 

Uniform 
Training class 
Training school 
State 
Special 

Normal diploma 20 

College graduate certificate 21 

College graduate professional certificate 2 2 

Indorsement of diplomas 22 

Legal requirements for cities 23 

Admission to training classes, training 

schools and normal schools 24 

Dates and progx ams cf examinat ?ons . . - 2 9 



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STATB OF NBW YORK 

EDUCATION DEPARTMENT 

Regents of the University 
With years when terms exiwre 

1913 Whitelaw Reid M.A. LL.D. 

Chancellor New York 

XQiy St Clair McKelway M.A. L.H.D. 

LL.D. D.C.L. Vice Chancellor . Brooklyn 

1908 Daniel Beach Ph.D. LL.D. . . . Watkina 

1914 Pliny T. Sexton LL.B. LL.D. . . Palmyra 
1912 T. Guilford Smith M.A. C.E. 

LL.D Buffalo 

1907 William Nottingham M.A. Ph.D. 

LL.D Syracuse 

1910 Charles A. Gardiner Ph.D. L.H.D. 

LL.D. D.C.L. . . . New York 

LgiS Albert Vander Vbbr M.D. M.A. 

Ph.D. LL.D Albany 

1911 Edward Lauterbach M.A. LL.D. . New York 

1909 Eugene A. Philbin LL.B. LL.D . . New York 
191 6 LuciAN L. Shedden LL.B Plattsburg 

Commissioner of Education 
AlNdrbw S. Draper LL.B LL.D. 

Assistant Commissioners 
Howard J. Rogers M.A. LL.D. First Assistant 
Edward J. Goodwin Lit.D. L.H.D. Second Assistant 
Augustus S. Downing M.A. Pd.D. LL.D. 

Third Assistant 

Secretary to the Commissioner 
Harlan H. Horner B.A. 

Director of State Library 

Edwin H. Anderson M.A. 

Director of Science and State Museum 

John M. Clarke Ph.D. LL.D. 

Chiefs of Divisiens 

Acoeuats, William Mason 

Atrtiendance, James D. Sullivau 

Educational Extension, William R. Eastman M.A. 

B.L.S. 
Examinations, Charles F. Wheelock B.S. LL.D. 
Inspections, Frank H. Wood M.A. 
' Daw. Thomas E. FjNEGifiJ'^^A; ^ I ' 
: SohdolJ.ib5arie«, Charles E: FfiAVL.B.®. 1 Qrtr2 
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Visual Instruction, DeLancey M. ^V^l^h L) 



'Jj" REGULATIONS RELATING TO 

V TEACHERS CERTIFICATES 

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c^ Based on Regents rules enacted Sep. 20, 1905. 

£\ Certificates are of the following classes: 
fyv elementary ; academic ; first grade ; training 
class; training school; State; special cer- 
tificates to be known as kindergarten, 
drawing, etc.; normal diplomas; college 
certificates. 

Age. Under a provision of law that 
went into effect in 1896, no person under 
18 years of age can receive a certificate. 

Elementary certificate 

Term. Certificates of this grade shall be 
issued for a term of two years and shall be 
limited to a particular school not main- 
taining an academic department. 

Number of certificates. Only one certifi- 
cate of this grade shall b6 granted to the 
same person, but it may be extended one 
year for each year of academic work com- 
pleted while it is in force. 

Experience. None is required. 

Educational requirements. Candidates 
shall be required to pass an examination 
in arithmetic, elementary United States 
history with civics, geography, reading, 



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spelling, penmanship, drawing, physiology 
and first year English (or its equivalent, 
English composition with either advanced 
English or grammar). 

Standing required. Candidates for cer- 
tificates of this grade must attain a stand- 
ing of 75 per cent or more in each subject. 

Number of trials allowed. Candidates for 
a certificate of this grade w411 be permitted 
to combine the standings earned in any 
four examinations within a year, but no 
one will be permitted to com.plete the work 
for this certificate until he shall have passed 
his 17th birthday. The certificate can not 
be issued by law until the candidate be- 
comes 18 years old. 

Dates of examinations. Examinations 
for this certificate shall be held in January, 
June and September of each year on the 
same dates as the Regents examinations; 
also in January, April, August and Novem- 
ber on the same dates as the uniform ex- 
aminations, so long as the latter shall be 
held [see p. 29]. 

Scope of examinations. Each elementary 
examination shall embrace questions in all 
required subjects. Candidates may submit 



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papers on any subject required for this 
certificate, at any examination, uniform or 
Regents, and a standing gained in any such 
examination shall be credited during the 
year toward such an elementary certificate. 

Places of examination.* The January 
and June examinations will be held 
in academic schools admitted to the Uni- 
versity, and at such other places as the 
school commissioners may designate with 
the approval of the Department. The 
September examination will be held in 
New York, Albany, Syracuse and Buffalo 
and at such other places only as may be 
named by the school commissioners and 
approved by the Department. 

Date of certificate. All certificates shall 
be issued January i and August i of each 
year. A candidate may take the examina- 
tion at any appointed time or place, but a 
certificate shall be issued only after the 
candidate shall have made an engagement 
to teach, approved by the school commis- 
sioner. 

1 The Regents ^ examinations that are conducted 
in January and in June by the school commis- 
sioners shall be open not only to prospective teachers 
but also to such pupils in the rural schools as may 
be qualified to take them. No more ninth grade 
examinations will be given. 



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A person entitled to an elementary cer- 
tificate is legally qualified to contract by 
presenting a statement from the school 
commissioner having jurisdiction showing 
that such person is entitled to this certifi- 
cate, and certifying that such certificate 
will be issued when a contract has been 
made with the trustees of some district to 
be designated in such statement of the 
school commissioner. 

Academic certificate 

Term, Certificates of this grade shall be 
issued for a term of three years and shall 
be limited to a particular school not main- 
taining an academic department. 

Nimiber of certificates. But one certifi- 
cate of this grade shall be granted to the 
same person. 

Experience. None is required. 

Educational requirements. Candidates 
must hold an academic diploma which 
shall include the following subjects: history 
of Great Britain and Ireland; American 
history with civics (or advanced United 
States history) ; physics; biology (including 
phj'siology) or physiology with either 
botany or zoology; psychology and the 



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principles of education or history and prin- 
ciples of education; advanced arithmetic; 
drawing. 

There must also have been at least 40 
periods of observation of elementary work, 
under the supervision of the principal of 
the school. 

Standing required. Subjects must have 
been passed at 75% or more. Candidates 
for this certificate will not be permitted to 
utilize any standings earned prior to their 
becoming 15 years of age and must not 
complete their work before becoming 17 
years old. The certificate will not be 
issued until the candidate is at least 
18 years old. Standings earned in uniform 
examinations may be applied toward the 
academic diploma. 

Date of certificate. All certificates will 
be issued January i and August i of each 
year. 

This certificate shall be issued only upon 
the application of the school commissioner, 
and on the certification of the commis- 
sioner and of the principal of the school as 
to the moral character and the ability of 
the student concerned. 



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Places of examinations. The examina- 
tions will be held in academic schools ad- 
mitted to the University. 

Commissioners uniform certificates 

Examinations for second grade certifi- 
cates were discontinued in April 1906. 

F%rst grade certificates 
Certificates of the first grade will be 
issued under the following regulations, as 
heretofore, but no examination for first 
grade certificates will be held after April 
1907. 

Term. Certificates of this grade shall be 
issued for a term of 10 years. 

Renewals. Upon their expiration, from 
time to time, certificates held by teachers 
who have taught under them successfully 
for a period of five legal school years, may 
be renewed by any school commissioner in 
the State, for a period of 10 years, without 
examination. 

Experience. Candidates must have 
taught successfully for at least two years, 
and are not eligible to receive this certifi- 
cate without having had such experience. 



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Educational requirements. Candidates 
shall be required to pass a written exam- 
ination in the following subjects: algebra, 
American history, arithmetic, bookkeep- 
ing, civil government, current topics, 
drawing, English composition, geography, 
grammar, history of education, methods 
and school management, orthography, pen- 
manship, physics, physiology and hygiene, 
reading and school law. 

Standing required. For certificates of 
this grade candidates must attain a stand- 
ing of 75 per cent in all subjects except 
drawing and in that subject 65 per cent. 

Number of trials allowed. Candidates 
may combine for this certificate the results 
of 12 examinations within a period of three 
years. 

Dates of examinations 

Examinations will be held November 
8, 9, 1906 and January 10, 11 and April 
II, 12, 1907. 

Each examination shall embrace ques- 
tion papers on all subjects. Candidates 
may therefore submit papers on any sub- 
ject required for a certificate at any 
examination. 



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Substitutions 

For any of the standings except reading, 
the candidate may substitute standings 
in the same subject earned in Regents 
examinations subsequent to November i, 
1904, provided the candidate was at that 
time at least 15 years old. 

Program of examinations 

Thursday a. m. Arithmetic, geography, 
drawing, history of education. 

Thursday p. m. English composition, 
grammar, physiology and hygiene, current 
topics. 

Friday a. m. American history, algebra, 
bookkeeping, orthography. 

Friday p. m. Civil government, school 
law, physics, methods and school manage- 
ment, reading. 

Exempt from examination 

Under merit rules. Candidates who are 
credited with 90 per cent or more on a 
second grade certificate will be exempt from 
examination in such subjects for one year 
from the date of the expiration of the cer- 
tificate on which such standing is credited. 



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Candidates for certificates of any grade 
shall be exempt from examination in any 
subject in which they have attained a 
standing of 75 per cent in an examination 
for a State certificate, not more than five 
years previously. 

Five years' experience. Teachers who 
have taught successfully five years shall be 
exempt from examination in all subjects 
credited on a second grade certificate with 
a standing of 75 per cent. The standing in 
these exempt subjects shall remain valid 
for two years after the expiration of the 
certificate on which they are credited. 

A standing in composition and in reading 
earned previous to August i, 1900, will not 
be accepted under this rule for English 
composition and reading. 

Training class certificate 

Term. These certificates shall be issued 
for a term of three years. 

Force. They shall be valid in all schools 
not maintaining an academic department. 

However, a holder of this certificate who 
entered the training class on an academic 



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diploma shall after four years of successful 
experience be eligible to teach in the sub- 
academic grades of any school. 

This certificate shall entitle its holder to 
one year's advanced standing in a State 
normal school, provided he entered the 
training class on an academic diploma and 
has taught successfully one year after 
graduation from the training class. 

Renewals. Upon the expiration of three 
years these certificates shall be renewable 
for five year periods if the holder has had at 
least two years of successful experience 
under the certificate. 

Experience. Candidates must have been 
in attendance upon a training class for at 
least two terms, as provided in the training 
class regulations. 

Requirements. Candidates must attain, 
in examinations held for training classes, 75 
per cent in each of the following subjects: 
arithmetic, American history, drawing, 
language and grammar, geography, physi- 
ology, reading, civics, school law, psychol- 
ogy and principles of education, penman- 
ship, school management, history of educa- 
tion, spelling. 



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Dates of examinations. Examinations 
will be held in January and in June on the 
last three days of the week during which 
Regents examinations occur [see p. 29]. 

Program of examinations 

Wednesday a. m. Psychology;^ physi- 
ology; spelling 

Wednesday p. m. School management; 
language, composition and grammar 

Thursday a. m. Arithmetic; school law 

Thursday p. m. American history ; read- 
ing 

Friday a. m. Geography ; history of edu- 
cation 

Friday p. m. Drawing; civil government 
Training school certificate 

A training school certificate will be 
issued under the provisions of chapter 1031 
of the laws of 1895 to those who shall com- 
plete the course of study prescribed for 
training schools. Admission to training 
schools shall be only on high school gradua- 
tion from a course of study approved by 
the Commissioner of Education [see p. 26]. 

1 Penmanship will be marked on the paper in 
psychology. 



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These certificates shall be valid for three 
years and renewable in periods of lo years 
on evidence of two years successful experi- 
ence in teaching. 

Dates of examinations. Examinations 
will be held in January and in June on the 
last three days of the week during which 
Regents examinations occur [see p. 29]. 



Program of examinations 

Wednesday a. m. Psychology and prin- 
ciples of education; nature study, physi- 
ology and hygiene 

Wednesday p. m. School management; 
methods in language, composition and 
grammar 

Thursday a. m. Methods in arithmetic 

Thursday p. m. Methods in history and 
civics; methods in reading, phonics and 
orthography 

Friday a. m. Methods in geography ; his- 
tory of education 

Friday p. m. Methods in drawing 



Teachers Certificates 
State certificate 



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A State certificate, valid for life in all 
grades of schools, will be issued to any 
person who after two years of successful 
experience in teaching shall attain the re- 
quired standing at a special examination 
in each of the following subjects: 



GROUP I 



Algebra 
Arithmetic 
American history 
Geography 
Grammar 



Spelling 
Penmanship 
Physiology and hy- 
giene 



GROUP 2 



Bookkeeping 

Botany 

Chemistry 

Civil government 

Composition and 
rhetoric 

Drawing 

General history 

English and Ameri- 
can literature 



Geology or zoology 
or astronomy 

History and princi- 
ples of education 

Methods and school 
economy 

Plane geometry 

Physics 

School law 



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GROUP 3 
Any one of the following subjects: 

Latin through the first four books of 

Caesar^s Commentaries. 
French (simple prose) 
German (simple prose) 
Spanish (simple prose) 
A standing of at least 75 per cent is re- 
quired in each of the subjects of group i, 
and an average standing of at least 75 per 
cent in the subjects of groups 2 and 3, but 
no paper in either of these groups showing 
a standing of less than 50 per cent will be 
accepted. 

Three consecutive examinations will be 
allowed in which to qualify for this cer- 
tificate. 

Substitution. In view of the advanced 
character of this certificate, credits earned 
in other examinations can not be accepted 
for this. 

Dates and places of examinations. Au- 
gust 19-23, 1907; August 24-28, 1908; 
August 23-27, 1909; August 22-26, 1910. 
The examinations will be held at the fol- 
lowing places: 

Albany — at high school building 
Binghamton — at high school building 



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Buffalo — at normal school building 

Chautauqua Assembly 

Elmira-^at the academy 

Kingston — at Kingston Academy 

Liberty — at high school building 

New York — at the training school for 

teachers, 119th street and 2d avenue 
Ogdensburg — at the academy 
Plattsburg — at normal school building 
Rochester — at high school building, Fitz- 

hugh street 
Salamanca — at high school building 
Syracuse — at new high school building 
Utica — at advanced school building 
Watertown — at high school building 

Scope of examinations. It is expected 
that each candidate will have covered, in 
each academic subject, the amount of work 
ordinarily required in a high school course. 
In the examinations each subject will be 
viewed largely from the teacher's stand- 
point and candidates should be prepared 
to give clear presentations, explanations 
and proofs. 

There will be no special topics for study 
except in English and American literature. 
The examination in these subjects will be 



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based on the high school reading course. 
In outHne this is as follows: 

Reading. Certain books are set for read- 
ing. The candidate is required to present 
evidence of a general knowledge of the sub- 
ject-matter, and to answer simple questions 
on the lives of the authors. The books set 
for this part of the examination are: 
In 1907 and 1908: Shakspere'sMocfe^/Ztand 
The Merchant of Venice; the Sir Roger de 
Coverley Papers; Irving's Life of Gold- 
smith; Coleridge's The Ancient Mariner; 
Scott's Ivanhoe and The Lady of tJie Lake; 
Tennyson's Gareth and Lynette, Lancelot 
and Elaine, and The Passing of Arthur; 
Lowell's The Vision of Sir Launfal; 
George Eliot's Silas Marner. 
Study and practice. The books set for 
this part of the examination are: 
In 1907 and 1908: Shakspere's Julius 
Caesar; Milton's U allegro, 11 penseroso, 
Comus and Lycidas; Burke's Speech on 
Conciliation with America; Macaulay's 
Essay on Addison and Life of Johnson. 

Special certificates 
Limitations. These certificates may be 
granted to those candidates who desire to 



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teach a special subject only, technical in 
character, and who have made special 
preparation for the work. The certificate 
will entitle its holder to teach the special 
subject only. 

Term and renewals. A special certificate 
may be granted for three years and after 
two years of successful experience it may 
be renewed for five year periods. 

No special certificate shall be granted, 
even though it be earned, except at the re- 
quest of a superintendent or commissioner 
after the applicant shall have been assured 
of a position to teach. 

Educational requirements. The appli- 
cant for any certificate, special in nature, 
must furnish evidence of graduation from 
an approved high school, or the equivalent, 
and also from an approved professional in- 
stitution wherein he has completed a course 
of study in the special subject. In addi- 
tion he must establish to the satisfaction 
of the Commissioner of Education that 
he is qualified to teach such special 
subject. 

Examinations. The above educational 
requirements apply to special certificates to 
teach elocution, sewing, cooking, manual 



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training, vocal music, kindergarten, draw- 
ing, commercial branches and stenography. 
In addition, for the last four certificates 
named candidates must pass the Depart- 
ment examinations prescribed below, and 
may combine for a certificate the standings 
earned in any four consecutive examina- 
tions. 

Kindergarten certificate. Training school 
examinations in history of education, psy- 
chology and principles of education, school 
management, primary methods, kinder- 
garten methods. For program and dates, 
see pages 29, 32. 

Drawing certificate. Special examina- 
tion in drawing [see p. 30]. ^ 

Coniniercial certificate. Regents exam- 
inations in advanced bookkeeping, business 
arithmetic, commercial law [^e^ p. 29,35,36]. 

Stenographer's certificate. Regents ex- 
aminations in stenography and typewriting 
[see p. 29, 34-36]. 

Normal diploma 

Diplomas of the New York State normal 
schools and of the New York State Normal 
College under the statute are certificates 
authorizing the holders to teach in the 
schools of the State. i 



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College graduate certificate 

Limited. A certificate valid for two years 
will be granted without examination tq a 
graduate of any approved college. 

This certificate is not valid in the primary 
and grammar grades of city schools. 

Permanent, If during the two years the 
holder shall pass the required examinations, 
the certificate will be renewed for one year. 
At the end of three years of successful ex- 
perience a college graduate certificate will 
be issued, valid for life, in any department 
of any school. 

Program of examinations 

Thursday a. m. Psychology 

Thursday p. m. History of education 

Friday a. m. Principles of education 

Friday p. m. Methods 

Dates and places. The examinations will 
be held annually in September at the fol- 
lowing places: 

Albany — at Assembly Chamber 
Buffalo — at Conley's Hall, 650 Main st. 
Canton — at St Lawrence University 
Elmira — at Elmira College 



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New York — at Grand Central Palace, 
43d St. and Lexington av. 

Syracuse — at Syracuse Medical College 

The examinations will be held Septem- 
ber 27, 28, 1906; October 3, 4, 1907; Sep- 
tember 24, 25, 1908; September 23, 24, 
1909; September 29, 30, 19 10. 

The scope of the examination is shown 
in Higher Education bulletin 25, a copy of 
which will be sent on application. 

College graduate professional certificate 

Provisional. A certificate valid for three 
years in any grade of any school will be 
issued to any graduate of an approved col- 
lege who shall have completed therein a 
course in education under the regulations 
of the Education Department. 

Permanent. On evidence of three years* 
successful experience, a permanent certifi- 
cate will be issued. 

Indorsement of diplomas and State cer- 
tificates 

Under the consolidated school law of this 
State the Commissioner of Education 
'*may also, in his discretion, indorse a 



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diploma issued by a state normal school or 
a certificate issued by a state superintend- 
ent or state board of education in any other 
state, which indorsement shall confer upon 
the holder thereof the same privileges con- 
ferred by law upon the holders of diplomas 
or certificates issued by State normal 
schools or by the Commissioner of Educa- 
tion in this State." 

This discretion will be exercised on evi- 
dence that the standards on which such 
diplomas and certificates were based are 
equal in value to standards in this State 
and that the applicant has proved to be a 
successful teacher for at least two years. 

Legal requirements for cities 

Primary and grammar schools 
Under the provisions of chapter 103 1 of 
the laws of 1895, no person who does not 
possess one of the following evidences of 
qualification can be employed in the pri- 
mary Sixid grammar schools oi a city employ- 
ing a superintendent of schools : 

1 A life State certificate. 

2 A diploma issued by the authorities of 
a State normal institution in this State. 

3 A college graduate certificate issued 
by the Commissioner of Education. 



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4 Graduation from a three year course 
in a high school or academy approved by 
the Commissioner of Education, or from an 
institution of learning of equal or higher 
rank hkewise approved, and subsequently 
thereto graduation from a school or class 
for the professional training of teachers, 
having a course of not less than 38 weeks, 
and which must also be thus approved. 

5 Three years' successful experience in 
teaching and a valid teachers certificate. 

The above provisions apply to the 
teachers employed in all the primary and 
grammar schools in each of the cities of the 
State. The certificate named under divi- 
sion 5 must be issued under the rules of the 
Commissioner of Education in all the cities 
of the State except Albany, Buffalo, James- 
town and New York. This certificate in 
all of the cities of the State except these 
four must therefore be issued under the 
regulations hereinbefore prescribed for 
school commissioner districts. In these 
four cities such certificate is issued under 
rules prescribed by the local authorities. 

Requirements for admission to training 
classes 

Candidates must possess: good health, 
good character, freedom from physical de- 
formity, capacity for training. 



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Candidates must hold as a minimum 
qualification one of the following: 

1 Any teachers certificate expired or un- 
pired, issued in this State. 

2 A standing of at least 65% in every 
subject required for an elementary certifi- 
cate and in addition any 12 academic 
counts imder the syllabus of 1900 or 18 
coimts under syllabus of 1905. 

3 A Regents academic diploma, which 
must include advanced United States his- 
tory or American history and civics, 
history of Great Britain and Ireland, 
physics, biology including physiology (or 
physiology with either botany or zoology) , 
advanced arithmetic, drawing. 

Requirements for admission to city training 
schools 

The approved course of study as required 
for normal schools. 

Requirements for admission to normal 
schools 

Age. Candidates must be at least 16 
years of age. 

Scholarship. Candidates for entrance 
must present a high school diploma, or its 
equivalent to be approved by the Com- 



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missioner of Education. Beginning with 
September 1907, candidates must present 
a diploma of graduation from the mini- 
mum approved course as given below 
prescribed by the Commissioner of Educa- 
tion for admission to normal schools and 
city training schools under the provisions 
of chapter 103 1 of the laws of 1895. 

Candidates, 21 years of age, and who 
have had two years of high school work 
or its equivalent and in addition thereto 
have taught two years will be admitted 
to the normal school with the imderstand- 
ing that they must complete the high 
school con rse in addition to the professional 
course before they shall be graduated. 

Graduates of training classes who en- 
tered the class upon a high school diploma 
and who have taught one year since grad- 
uation from the training class may com- 
plete the professional course in the normal 
school in one year if they possess the re- 
quired aptitude for training. 

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS FOR AN AP- 
PROVED COURSE OF STUDY FOR AD- 
MISSION TO NORMAL SCHOOLS AND 
CITY TRAINING SCHOOLS ON AND 
AFTER SEPTEMBER I, I907 

A course of study in a high school or 



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academy to receive the approval of the 
Commissioner of Education, as required 
by chapter 103 1 of the laws of 1895, 
entitled '* An act to encourage and 
promote the professional training of 
teachers,*' must include 2880 recitation 
periods, of which the following subjects 
must be a part: 

English. The course in English must 
be continuous throughout the four years, 
and must provide adequate instruction in 

Literature 1 

Rhetoric and composition ?• 494 hours^ 

Grammar ) 

History. The course in history must 
include the three following courses, each 
of which should be continuous throughout 
the year. 

Ancient history 114 hours 

History of Great Britain and 

Ireland 114 hours 

American history with the 
development of civic insti- 
tutions 152 hours 

Mathematics. The course in mathe- 
matics must include 

o The term "hour" as used in this course means 
a recitation period of not less than 45 minutes. 



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Algebra (through quadratics). 190 hours 
Plane geometry 190 hours 

Science. The course in science must 
embrace biology (including human physi- 
ology) and physics. The laboratory 
method of teaching these subjects is 
prescribed. 

Biology 190 hours 

Physics 190 hours 

Foreign languages. The course in 
foreign languages must include 

Latin 380 hours 

or 
French 380 hours 

or 
German 380 hours 

Drawing. The course in drawing must 
be continuous throughout the four years, 
and must provide adequate instruction 
for 228 hours. 

Drawing 228 hours 

Vocal music. The course in vocal music 
must be continuous throughout the four 
years, and should provide adequate in- 
struction in sight singing from the staff 
and the use of common technical terms. 

Vocal music 152 hours 



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The number of hours required in each 
subject is based on a school year of 38 
weeks as a minimum, 

DATES OF EXAMINATIONS 

Regents examinations 





1907 


1908 


1909 


1910 


January- 


21-25 


27-31 


25-29 


24-28 


June 


17-21 


1S-19 


14-18 


20-24 


September 


25-27 


14-16 


13-1S 


19-21 



Training class, training school and kinder- 
garten examinations 1906-10 

In January and June as above, on Wed- 
nesday, Thursday and Friday of each week 
indicated 

Uniform examinations for commissioners 
certificates 

1906 1907 

August 9, 10 

November 8, 9 

January 10, n 

April II, 12 

Examinations for life State certificates 

1907 1908 1909 1910 

August 19-23 24-28 23-27 22-26 



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Examinations for special drawing certifi- 
cates 



June 
August 


1907 
21 
23 


1908 
28 


1909 
18 
27 


1910 
24 
26 


Examinations for college 


certificates 


October 
September 


1907 
3.4 


1908 
24. 25 


1909 
23, 24 


1910 
29. 30 



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